Communicating Pain: Exploring Suffering Through Language, Literature and Creative Writing

ISBN-13: 9781138611054 / Angielski / Twarda / 2018 / 252 str.

Stephanie Potocka de Montalk

Opis

Combining critical research with memoir, essay, poetry and creative biography, this insightful volume sensitively explores the lived experience of chronic pain.

O autorze

Stephanie de Montalk worked as a nurse and documentary film maker before becoming a writer in 1996. She is the author of four collections of poems, a literary novel, a memoir-biography and the award-winning memoir-study of pain: How Does It Hurt?; adapted from her PhD thesis in Creative Writing. Since an accident in 2003, she has been constrained by pain.